I recently needed a super simple webserver to listen to POST requests. Before we used express to host a simple Node server. However, I kept hearing amazing things about Fastify, and we are actually using this at daily.dev. So time to try it out for a...
We had a short introduction into PM2, a process manager for Node scripts. However, there is one big thing we didn't cover yet, and that's startup scripts. These are PM2 scripts we can generate, so the processes running will restart themselves on an u...
Ever made a node application? Maybe even an Angular Universal application? Chances are, you might have needed PM2, but didn't know about it yet. PM2 is a fantastic process manager for node scripts, meaning it can auto-start them, keep them running, a...
In Linux systems, by default, the history does not include a timestamp, which can be annoying when you want to see when a command was executed to determine an update or some kind. So today, I'll be showing you how to enable timestamps for the bash hi...
Yesterday we learned how to set up virtual host on Mac OS X, and today I'll show you how to make htaccess work so we can have SEO friendly URL's. SEO-friendly URLs are a big part of your online presence, and a lot of times, you want to rewrite ugly t...
You might remember the days of MAMP/XAMP/WAMP? Well, for Mac OS X, we don't need these tools anymore. It's actually possible to host a website on your local Mac, and it's not as hard as you would think! Today, we'll set up a local PHP website that we...
